Docker Job Trends in South Wales

Docker
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Docker skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 19 44
Rank change year-on-year -33 +25 0
Permanent jobs citing Docker 15 61 25
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.86% 7.17% 4.15%
As % of the System Software category 20.83% 54.95% 40.32%
Number of salaries quoted 14 60 19
10th Percentile £55,375 - £42,500
25th Percentile £56,345 £23,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,748 £32,500 £57,165
Median % change year-on-year +86.92% -43.15% -3.38%
75th Percentile £76,642 £65,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £78,790 - £68,497
Wales median annual salary £60,000 £32,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +84.62% -32.99% -18.03%

All System Software Skills
South Wales

Docker falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring system software skills in South Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 72 111 62
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 8.94% 13.04% 10.30%
Number of salaries quoted 60 82 50
10th Percentile £28,000 £23,750 £31,013
25th Percentile £32,500 £27,000 £39,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £32,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +61.54% -35.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £53,438 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £71,734
Wales median annual salary £52,500 £34,500 £43,802
% change year-on-year +52.17% -21.24% -12.40%

Docker
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Docker relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Docker job vacancy trend in South Wales

Docker
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Docker

Docker
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Docker in South Wales over the 6 months to 19 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Docker in South Wales

Docker
Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Docker within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 19 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Cardiff -17 9 £71,940 +121.35% 10
Bridgend - 5 £57,500 - 4
Neath Port Talbot - 1 £60,000 - 1
Docker
Wales

Docker
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (20.00%) IIS
3 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 10 (66.67%) AWS
3 8 (53.33%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) GitHub
4 6 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (26.67%) dbt
5 4 (26.67%) GCP
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECR
6 3 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
6 3 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 3 (20.00%) PaaS
6 3 (20.00%) Pulumi
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon ElastiCache
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 2 (13.33%) Azure API Management
7 2 (13.33%) Sentry
8 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (6.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (20.00%) Redis
3 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
3 1 (6.67%) Delta Lake
3 1 (6.67%) DynamoDB
3 1 (6.67%) Metadata
3 1 (6.67%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Git
1 4 (26.67%) Octopus Deploy
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
1 4 (26.67%) TeamCity
2 2 (13.33%) Artifactory
2 2 (13.33%) git-flow
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (6.67%) JMeter
3 1 (6.67%) Locust
3 1 (6.67%) MLflow
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 6 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Platform Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Site Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Django
3 2 (13.33%) GraphQL
4 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
4 1 (6.67%) Jest
4 1 (6.67%) Kafka
4 1 (6.67%) Keras
4 1 (6.67%) Lambda Expressions
4 1 (6.67%) Metaflow
4 1 (6.67%) NumPy
4 1 (6.67%) Pandas
4 1 (6.67%) Playwright
4 1 (6.67%) PySpark
4 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
4 1 (6.67%) React
4 1 (6.67%) REST
4 1 (6.67%) scikit-learn
4 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
4 1 (6.67%) Web Services
4 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.67%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) CI/CD
2 13 (86.67%) DevOps
3 7 (46.67%) Containerisation
3 7 (46.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (46.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 6 (40.00%) Observability
4 6 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (26.67%) Agile
5 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 4 (26.67%) Software Delivery
6 3 (20.00%) Clean Code
6 3 (20.00%) CRM
6 3 (20.00%) Event-Driven
6 3 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (20.00%) Prototyping
6 3 (20.00%) Service-Level Objective
6 3 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
7 2 (13.33%) FinOps
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Python
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (13.33%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) C
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (80.00%) Terraform
2 10 (66.67%) Kubernetes
3 3 (20.00%) Ansible
4 2 (13.33%) AWS Copilot
4 2 (13.33%) Grafana
5 1 (6.67%) Kubeflow
5 1 (6.67%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 3 (20.00%) Google
2 3 (20.00%) Pega
2 3 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (13.33%) Guidewire
3 2 (13.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.67%) Databricks